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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Frieda say her mother has decided to kick K. out of the house?
(a) She believes the Castle dislikes him and anyplace he stays will have bad favor.
(b) She has heard that he hangs out with undesirable people.
(c) She is afraid he won't have money to pay for his board.
(d) She has revealed too much personal information to him.

2. Who does K. go to the Gentlemen's Inn to look for?
(a) Olga.
(b) Frieda.
(c) Barnabas.
(d) Klamm.

3. Who does K. believe is behind the landlady's marriage and the lease of the inn?
(a) Hans.
(b) Klamm.
(c) The Count.
(d) Hans' uncle.

4. How does the landlady say she feels about K. staying at the inn?
(a) She says she is happy that K. is staying there.
(b) She says that she wants K. to leave immediately.
(c) She says that she wants K. to stay but doesn't want to see or hear him.
(d) She says she is in love with K. and wants him to stay.

5. What is the weather like the morning after K. arrives?
(a) There is snow.
(b) It is raining.
(c) It is cloudy and dark.
(d) It is sunny and warm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the landlady say about the landlord?

2. Where does K. go when he arrives at the village?

3. What does Schwarzer tell K. in the beginning of the novel when the two first meet?

4. What does the chairman say about the Castle's phone system?

5. What does K. tell Schwarzer he is?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Klamm write about K.'s assistants, and how does this compare to the reality of K.'s assistants' roles?

2. What does K. praise Frieda for?

3. Who are the people in the house K. stops at on his way toward the Castle?

4. What does K. suspect about Frieda, at the end of Chapter XII?

5. What reason does K. give for refusing to let the assistants come back?

6. What happens between K. and the assistants after Frieda gets up in the middle of the night at the school?

7. How does K. discover that Klamm is staying at the Gentlemen's Inn?

8. What does the coachman tell K. about Klamm's arrival at the coach?

9. What reason does the landlady give K. that her conversation with him is important, and does her reason seem true, based on the conversation?

10. What does K. call Artur and Jeremias and why?

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